Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[cactusrota]

It look's like you are planning a good colorful hatch again! Good luck!

I don't have any mature Bresse roosters right now for hatching out any more all white birds. I have 5 total solid white Nn hens, three are still young pullets that haven't started laying yet. I've decided that outside of keeping the pure line of white Bresse, white birds get their feathers trashed too easily. So I don't think I want to maintain a line of all white Nn's.
I'm AM working on an all black line of Nn's where the cockerels don't get any leakage. I'm finding it's really hard to find black Nn roosters without any leakage at all. They are all mutts all over the country. So I'm using my hatchery Jersey Giants to get a non-leaky black NN, and increasing their size at the same time. My main Nn meat flock will be alot of colors though. I seem to be naturally getting a theme of blue wheatens and blacks. I think I might stick with that. The wheatens and blues are pretty birds.

 

[CannedMonster]

Agatha is doing well. Her wound is scabbed and healing.
I had to let her out of the crate because she was becoming very frustrated and her color wasn’t good.
The next morning after roosting with the flock she was looking much happier.
She’s still mending but I’m glad the injury is out of sight of the others so she can still free range with them.
Unfortunately she hasn’t laid a single egg since her first on August 26th.
I hope she starts up again soon!
Emily hasn’t laid anything yet.
They’re almost 6 months old now.

Angus has become a really good rooster and I’m looking forward to chicks from him one day.

 

[cactusrota]

Oh, and I don't remember if I mentioned this here or not, but I've ended up with the perfect pair for making Nn EE's. This boy was from that one blue/green egg hen I had gotten from you. He was a funny little chick but grew up really neat looking, and almost clean necked!

And I've got this pure bred black Ameraucana pullet that a friend gave me that i can cross him with. The offspring won't lay bright blue eggs like a CLB, but they should be a pretty green.

I also have three of those Wheaten Marans pullets that I got from Cackle hatchery. I should be able to put them in with him too for Olive Eggers.
Just crossing my fingers that he inherited the blue egg gene from his mom. I'm pretty sure he did, though.

 

[BlueBaby]

I don't have any mature Bresse roosters right now for hatching out any more all white birds. I have 5 total solid white Nn hens, three are still young pullets that haven't started laying yet. I've decided that outside of keeping the pure line of white Bresse, white birds get their feathers trashed too easily. So I don't think I want to maintain a line of all white Nn's.
I'm AM working on an all black line of Nn's where the cockerels don't get any leakage. I'm finding it's really hard to find black Nn roosters without any leakage at all. They are all mutts all over the country. So I'm using my hatchery Jersey Giants to get a non-leaky black NN, and increasing their size at the same time. My main Nn meat flock will be alot of colors though. I seem to be naturally getting a theme of blue wheatens and blacks. I think I might stick with that. The wheatens and blues are pretty birds.

Are you growing out some of your Breese cockerels now, then?

 

[cactusrota]

Agatha is doing well. Her wound is scabbed and healing.
I had to let her out of the crate because she was becoming very frustrated and her color wasn’t good.
The next morning after roosting with the flock she was looking much happier.
She’s still mending but I’m glad the injury is out of sight of the others so she can still free range with them.
Unfortunately she hasn’t laid a single egg since her first on August 26th.
I hope she starts up again soon!
Emily hasn’t laid anything yet.
They’re almost 6 months old now.
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Angus has become a really good rooster and I’m looking forward to chicks from him one day.
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Good to hear that she's doing so well.
Those are some rich deep colors on that rooster!!! Very handsome!

 

[BlueBaby]

Oh, and I don't remember if I mentioned this here or not, but I've ended up with the perfect pair for making Nn EE's. This boy was from that one blue/green egg hen I had gotten from you. He was a funny little chick but grew up really neat looking, and almost clean necked!View attachment 1527342 View attachment 1527343

And I've got this pure bred black Ameraucana pullet that a friend gave me that i can cross him with. The offspring won't lay bright blue eggs like a CLB, but they should be a pretty green.View attachment 1527344
I also have three of those Wheaten Marans pullets that I got from Cackle hatchery. I should be able to put them in with him too for Olive Eggers.
Just crossing my fingers that he inherited the blue egg gene from his mom. I'm pretty sure he did, though.

It look's like she's producing offspring well for you, then. He actually look's like he has a river of fire running off his back with the way that the coloring turned out!

 

[cactusrota]

Are you growing out some of your Breese cockerels now, then?

Yeah, I've got one that's in the lead for the position and a couple others that are runner ups. I just took back three cockerels from someone that I sold hatching eggs to like three months ago, and have 5 other cockerels from the chicks that the broody hatched back in the end of May. Plus two left right now from my incubated eggs that hatched the beginning of May. So I've got 10 Bresse cockerels growing out right now!

 

[BlueBaby]

Yeah, I've got one that's in the lead for the position and a couple others that are runner ups. I just took back three cockerels from someone that I sold hatching eggs to like three months ago, and have 5 other cockerels from the chicks that the broody hatched back in the end of May. Plus two left right now from my incubated eggs that hatched the beginning of May. So I've got 10 Bresse cockerels growing out right now! View attachment 1527356

Well, you will have plenty of those boy's to choose from with the breeding.

 

[CannedMonster]

Oh, and I don't remember if I mentioned this here or not, but I've ended up with the perfect pair for making Nn EE's. This boy was from that one blue/green egg hen I had gotten from you. He was a funny little chick but grew up really neat looking, and almost clean necked!View attachment 1527342 View attachment 1527343

And I've got this pure bred black Ameraucana pullet that a friend gave me that i can cross him with. The offspring won't lay bright blue eggs like a CLB, but they should be a pretty green.View attachment 1527344
I also have three of those Wheaten Marans pullets that I got from Cackle hatchery. I should be able to put them in with him too for Olive Eggers.
Just crossing my fingers that he inherited the blue egg gene from his mom. I'm pretty sure he did, though.

Wow! He’s really cool
I like him!
I see he has those slate legs.
Angus has legs like that too.
And Emily’s are green.
I’ve always wondered if they have EE genes.

 

[cactusrota]

It look's like she's producing offspring well for you, then. He actually look's like he has a river of fire running off his back with the way that the coloring turned out!

And he's only about 5 months old, he's still got alot of filling out to do. I'm looking forward to see how he looks in a couple more months.
I have one other that I "think" may have come from her, but he was hatched by a broody so I never got to see what egg he came out of. And he only has one copy of the Nn gene, anyway, but he's got a proper 3 row pea comb, so I suspect he may be from one of the Dark Cornish hens.
I can never get any pics of him looking at me, he's such a butt...